Steven Brust (Steven Karl Zoltán Brust) Quotes

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

Steven Brust

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• I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Feel
  • Very
  • Been

• I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Beginning
  • Feel

• William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Difficult

• Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Way
  • Language
  • Feel

• It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • True
  • Funny
  • Feel

• I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Mind
  • Feel
  • Ready

• I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Deny

• Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Like
  • Moral
  • Feel

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Important
  • Want
  • Feel

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• Let's hope you feel better now.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Hope
  • Feel
  • Better

• I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Hands
  • Comfortable

• It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Privilege

• I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Need

• There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Feeling
  • Feel
  • Talking

• The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Gift

• Yes. When I’m writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Find Out

• I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Men
  • Think
  • Myself

• A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.

  

  Eleanor Brown
  • Taste
  • Level
  • Provocative

• Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Everything

• Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Friends
  • Moral
  • Something

• Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Feel
  • Superior
  • Pleases